- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:52:08 +0200
- To: Alan Cantor <acantor@oise.utoronto.ca>
- cc: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
> Two questions for the more HTML-savvy members of our group: > > 1. What makes a table "complex?" Or, when is a table "complex?" I don't > understand the point. A "simple" two-column table is often impossible > to decipher for a screen reader user. We discussed complexity of table on the Guidelines list but never reached a real conclusion. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/1998JanMar/0213.html The issue is the following: how we draw the line between work the author has to do vs. work the browser can do. For tables, I personally think putting it all on the author's hand is too much asking and that user agents can easily make simple tables accessible (look at lynx for the level 0 support: ignore the table markup and print out the content as is). > 2. Which browsers support "header and cell scope information?" And > where can I read up on this subject? None at that point I think. You can read about that in the HTML4 spec http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#h-11.4 or in the WAI HTML Access paper http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/HTML4-access
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